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Delhi Legislative Assembly Election

Aam Aadmi Party scored a landslide victory in Delhi, delivering to the BJP its first defeat since its historic Lok Sabha triumph and reducing the Congress, which ruled the capital for 15 years till 2013, to a virtual nonentity.

Tens of thousands of jubilant AAP activists celebrated across the capital and in many other cities as the 27-month-old party grabbed a sensational 67 of the 70 seats in the Delhi assembly, leaving just three seats to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- the highest victory margin for any party in Delhi so far.

Although Delhi accounts for only 70 of the 4,120 assembly seats in the country, the AAP's spectacular showing had its predictable fallout, with opposition parties and even BJP ally Shiv Sena taking potshots at Modi.

The win gave the AAP, India's youngest political outfit, 96 percent of seats in a legislature - another record - and a new lease of life after it was written off following its earlier turbulent 49-day stint in Delhi and the later humiliating rout in the 2014 Lok Sabha battle.

Kejriwal, to be sworn-in as Delhi's chief minister at the Ramlila Ground for a second time on Feb 14, also met President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

List of Delhi Cabinet Ministers 2015

S.no.

Name of Minister

Ministry of Department

Constituency

1

Arvind Kejriwal

Chief Minister, Finance and Home Minister

New Delhi

2

Manish Sisodia

Deputy CM, Education, Urban Development Department and the Public Works Department (PWD) Minister

Delhi Election News

Puducherry, Feb 18 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday termed it a "travesty of democracy" that an elected Chief Minister was sitting on the road while a person who was defeated in the Delhi elections is ruling Puducherry as Lt. Governor.
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New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The BJP and the Congress on Monday hit out at Delhi's Arvind Kejriwal government accusing it of misleading voters, a day after the Election Commission (EC) asked the Delhi Police to probe telephone calls to people claiming their names have been deleted from electoral rolls.
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New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) With an eye on Delhi elections slated for next year, the National Youth Party on Wednesday announced its chief ministerial candidate along with an 'Action Plan 2020'.
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New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The Delhi Election Commission on Thursday said that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) polls do not belong to it and appear to have been procured privately by the university.
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Chandigarh, May 20 (IANS) BJP President Amit Shah said on Saturday that his party will win the next general election in the country in 2019 by a much bigger margin than the majority achieved in the 2014 elections.
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The wag has a point. The 2017 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, we are being persistently reminded, were won by the BJP handsomely because of a single factor: a Modi wave. Fair enough. But the BJP won the two previous Delhi municipal elections also. Who generated the waves then?
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New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Delhi Congress on Saturday complained to the Delhi State Election Commission alleging that the Times of India's Delhi edition had violated the poll panel's guidelines by publishing an opinion poll within 48 hours of the end of polling for Sunday's municipal corporation elections.
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Bhubaneswar, April 16 (IANS) Keeping its thrust on development agenda, the BJP has embarked on a mission to retain power in 2019, fine-tuning its strategy to woo the poor and a section of Muslims to expand its base.
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Bhubaneswar, April 16 (IANS) Dubbing triple talaq a "bad social practice", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said such practices can be ended by social awakening but stressed that the BJP didn't want a conflict in the society for this.
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New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Questioning the Election Commissions credibility over the issue of "rigged" EVMs, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused it of being biased towards BJP and hinted at possibility of the companies manufacturing EVMs being involved in their tampering.
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Mumbai, April 5 (IANS) The Republican Party of India (A), led by Union Minister for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale, is all set to expand its political base in Uttar Pradesh and contest the upcoming Delhi civic elections, a party official said here on Wednesday.
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New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by the Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj India party challenging the Delhi Election Commission's denial of a common symbol to its candidates for the upcoming civic polls.
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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) In keeping with the Delhi Election Commission's order ahead of the municipal polls, officials on Friday started plastering over the words "Aam Aadmi" from Delhi government-run schemes on display, and some even went to the extent of covering Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's face, which was not part of the order.
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New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) In keeping with the Delhi Election Commission's order ahead of the municipal polls, officials on Friday started plastering over the words "Aam Aadmi" from Delhi government-run schemes on display, and some even went to the extent of covering Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's face, which was not part of the order.
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New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The ruling AAP on Wednesday accused the Delhi State Election Commission of acting as a subordinate of its political masters by ordering removal/covering of "Aam" word displayed in Delhi government's schemes.
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